Kaoru Mitoma - ankle

Brighton & Hove Albion winger Kaoru Mitoma (28) has an issue with his ankle and he is being monitored on a day-to-day basis.. (Source: Brighton & Hove Albion)

🎙️|Fabian Hürzeler: ¨We have to see day by day if he is available or not. He received a knock, that is true, but he was able to play against Chelsea, so let’s see.” (Source: The Argus)

Update Friday 17 October 2025
🎙️|Fabian Hürzeler: "Both Kaoru Mitoma and Joel Veltman are in training, but we still have to assess them as well. There's still a question mark on both. Therefore we have to wait to see how they're doing and then we can make a decision. (Source: Brighton & Hove Albion)

Update Friday 31 October 2025
🎙️|Fabian Hürzeler: “Kaoru Mitoma is back on the training pitch, and we hope to see him before the international break,” (Source: Brighton & Hove Albion)

Update Thursday 6 November 2025

🎙️|Fabian Hürzeler: ¨It's a 50-50. We will see how he does in the training sessions before Sunday but we’re certainly not ruling him out for Palace¨.

Update Friday 21 November 2025
🎙️|Fabian Hürzeler: “With Kaoru, it's not an easy thing to predict. In the last international break I said it's just a question of two or three weeks. But now he's getting close. He has to handle the pain, so it's not a big issue, everything is healed, so he should be fine. We just have to see how he can handle the pain. When he will be back, I'm sure that it won’t take that long.... It’s healed. Everything is fine structurally. Now it's just about handling the pain and that's something what we have to work with him on. There are different methods to go through. There are different things but it's very individualised, so you can't say that this method is working every time for the player. You have to really understand how the player reacts to pain, how he reacts to different methods to overcome the pain. We have to find the right way for him and then I'm sure that he will be back quickly because we already saw him on the pitch. He's already working hard. He's getting into a good physical shape. He just needs to make the last step.” (Source: Brighton & Hove Albion)

Update Thursday 27 November 2025

🎙️| Fabian Hürzeler: Kaoru [Mitoma] is getting close. I am quite positive that we see both James and Kaoru before Christmas." (Source: Brighton & Hove Albion)

Update Tuesday 2 December 2025

¨He was in training yesterday, and he will train today, then we have to make a decision if he's an option for the squad, but he's definitely really close.¨(Source: Brighton & Hove Albion)

Update Friday 5 December 2025

🎙️| Fabian Hürzeler: ¨He's still an option, so let's see if he's able to train today. He had a small setback during the training session, not a big one, so hopefully he can train today and then for sure we try to make him as quick as possible an option for us.¨(Source: Brighton & Hove Albion)